Amazon Kindle + Audible = Killer-app?

Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Ben

My wife sent me a link to the Amazon Kindle the other day, and asked, “Have you heard of this? what do you think?” I think she wants one.
I have to admit that the thought of such a device is appealing. I have tried reading e-books on my PDA and BlackBerry occasionally, but other than [...]

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Updated my favorite podcasts

Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Ben

I’ve updated my list of podcasts with some that I forgot and some new ones I discovered while finding the links to the first ones. I also slightly reorganized the list (Added a business section)
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Tags: gadgets, ipod, podcasts

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Podcasts I listen to

Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Ben

I got a 4 MB blue iPod Nano 2nd Genfor my birthday last June, and while I do have a few music playlists, I almost exclusively listen to podcasts. I can’t believe I went so long without one of these. Putting together the list below led me to some others that I might give a [...]

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Easily Unit Testing Event Handlers

Posted on December 27th, 2007 by Ben

In C#, If you need to unit test a class that fires an event in certain circumstances (perhaps even asynchronously), you need to handle a little more than just running some code and doing the assertion. You have to make sure your unit test waits for the event to be fired. Here’s one naive way [...]

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The Benefits of Having Too Much Processing Power

Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Ben

Do an experiment: keep Task Manager or any other CPU activity monitoring program up on your screen for a few hour or days, glancing at it every so often. Do you see it EVER above zero (other than momentary spikes)?
Here’s mine, from a Google sidebar gadget:

I’ve got a Dual Core and 2GB RAM. Currently I [...]

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Bose headphones

Posted on June 26th, 2006 by Ben

I received many wonderful gifts for my birthday, but these in particular have helped me at work in a way nothing else has.
I listen to music constantly as a program–it helps me concentrate and eliminates all other distractions. 
They really do work as well as I expected–maybe even better. I work in a pretty noisy environment–the [...]

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